University of Michigan - Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

17 June 2012

Officially Underway

The field trip is officially underway. Everyone showed up a the department on-time. We loaded our gear and ourselves onto our chartered U-M bus, which meet us conveniently at the C.C. Little bus stop. Now we off to Detroit Metro Airport!

Acknowledgments and Support

Field trips are a critical and integral component of geoscience education. They provide students with unequaled opportunities for exploring and understanding geological principles first-hand, outside of the classroom, at real-world scales.

Such trips, however, are expensive endeavors. While students themselves bare a portion of the costs, we rely on grants and donations to cover the majority of the trip's costs. This helps to ensure an affordable experience open all students.